what is your worst language? what's ur favorite?

IS – So in what language do the Reb Ahrelech daaven?

Choppy, Ben-Yehuda was not the leader of the Zionists. Different groups had different leaders. Moreover, there is evidence that he did teshuva at the end. He went to ask Rav Kook about the meanings of some words in the Gemara (so we see that Rav Kook helped rejuvenate Hebrew) on an erev Shabbat. Rav Kook told it that it was time for him to do teshuva and he said “maybe”. He died the following day.

Worst? Chinese/Japanese/Korean/VietNamese, etc. It sounds like someone is trying to negotiate a very hot lemon in their mouth. But you can add Swedish to that, too. That sounds like someone is playing a tape backwards.

Best? Hebrew! I love hearing it and looking at the letters. Even the word, “Hebrew”, is a very attractive word; if there can be such a thing. lol

My best langauge is pig latin, his tay hread tay is ool cay.

I must add that I appreciate Yiddish very much since I find it is a language that unites, wherever we come from, there is a common language….

Sephardim do NOT speak Yiddish

MY WORST WORST WORST: French! The language sounds like a bunch of drunk people barfing on each other. I can’t believe that no one has mentioned it. Every time I hear a Jew speaking this language, I get a chance to work on my Ahavas Yisrael.

And what is wrong with a Jew speaking French, France has the larges jewish population in Europe , Belgium has a large chassidic population and I think they speak french there and there is a large jewish population in Quebec and they speak french there.

French does sound alot better than the language the sounds like German

Most likely the language your mother spoke to you in , is what you think is the most beautiful language

Nechomah: Point taken. To be more precise, for political reasons they don’t know it well enough to speak it conversationally. This problem exists across all streams of Jewry — people don’t know our ancestral language well enough to use it. Even moder Hebrew speakers have this problem to some extent because the grammar of modern Hebrew is more like Yiddish than like the Hebrew of Tanach or even that of the Rishonim.

choppy: Hebrew is more unifying because it is the language of the Torah. Yiddish is only the language of the ashkenazim.

Any language that is spoken too quickly, bothers me. I don’t like hearing Chinese, because of the ups and downs of the inflection. German bothers me from a strictly emotional point of view.

ARABIC MAKES ME SICK. Period.

Other than English and Hebrew (or Aramaic, which is beautiful also), my favorite language to hear spoken is Italian, because it is a melodic language, and I agree with “babytalk” because I’d love to hear ANYTHING my new ainekal will babble when he is able. This, above all.

IS: Modern Hebrew is neither the language of the Torah nor unifying, nor, IMHO, any different than Turkish or Farsi – it is the language of a secular culture complete with all those things that we want to stay away from.

choppy: I said Hebrew. And even modern Hebrew with it’s Yiddish grammar and English loan words is closer to the language of the Torah than either Yiddish or English.

mdd: He doesn’t have to convince the zionists fanatics; they are already sold.

Aramaic is still spoken today in parts of Syria

“We are not supposed to feel comfortable in the galus”

Sorry but that has nothing to do with the special quality of gehenom that is Germany vis a vis modern Jewry. While on an esoteric level, you are right, your point does not speak to the issue at hand. I specifically hate hearing German spoken because of negative feelings it evokes. English is the language of the country in which i was born, and I have many happy memories associated with it.

oooh! Whenever I hear Jews speak Arabic it sounds so pretty, but when spoken by Arabs, it sounds plain ugly. I think it’s because there is a different dialect.

oooh! Whenever I hear Jews speak Arabic it sounds so pretty, but when spoken by Arabs, it sounds plain ugly. I think it’s because there is a different dialect.

I know people who Speak Hebrew with an Arabic accent, it very much sounds like the noise you hear coming out of a mosque before prayer time.

Oomis: I suppose you have the same feeling for Italian and the Romans, considering what they did to the Beis Hamikdash and the Jewry they murdered in Yerushalayim.

Coffee and Zahava’s Dad, there are two general (each country has its own dialect) types of Arabic: street Arabic and literary Arabic, which is spoken by the elites and is almost unintelligible to the mases (a professor of Arabic went to the Arab market after the Six-Day War and tried to speak to one of the vendors. He said “I don’t speak English”).

As for the Hebrew of the Eidot HaMizrach, most experts on the subject, as welll as Rav Kook, hold that the Yemenite pronunciation is closest to the original.It is certain from various soureces that thte tzaddi, for example, was actually a hard “s” as some of them pronounce it.

Oomis: I suppose you have the same feeling for Italian and the Romans, considering what they did to the Beis Hamikdash and the Jewry they murdered in Yerushalayim. “

I would, if it had happened in my time. Today’s Italian is not the LATIN of those Romans, probably. But it is still far removed from modern history. The Holocaust is too close to home. And let’s be honest – there is NO nation of people, no group, no country that has not hated Jews and tried to annihilate us (maybe Swahili?). So basically, we should hate ALL languages but Hebrew.

The People of Italy are not nessasaily decendents of the Romans either, They might be decendants of the barbarians (The Germanic peoples who conqured Italy in the Middle Ages and destroyed Rome)

I said “pretty much limited”. And with the Arabs, it’s a recent thing. And they want just to destroy the state. And they are big mouths – they do not 100% mean everything they say.

TT – It’s the same for Yiddish. My daughter says she can’t read Yiddish books because she does not want to read words that have 29 letters in them, LOL.

What bothers me the most about Ivrit, which although my children all learn in Yiddish everyone is trilingual in my house, is that I wonder how the Ashkenazim daaven and say brochos. Do they say it with the Ashkenazi pronunciations or do they forget and just say it with the Sephardi pronunciation like Ivrit? My children learn in Yiddish but my daughters learn a lot of grammar for Loshon Hakodesh. As a matter of fact, my daughter in 10th grade just took her second major exam on grammar – end-of-year test based on what they learned the whole learn.

IS – I would bet that the Reb Ahrelech can manage at least on a bare minimum to speak LK let’s say in a government office, but they won’t spend time speaking in it. It’s not a language for conversation. Isn’t that why Aramaic was used in the Gemara?

And with the Arabs, it’s a recent thing”

Are you serious????? They have said REPEATEDLY, vociferously, and loudly that they want to throw every Jewish/Zionist man, woman, and child into the sea! They not only MEAN everything they say 100%, they cannot WAIT to show how much they mean it!

You honestly think that thousands of years of Yishmael is a RECENT thing? You are right that they have big mouths, big mouths and even bigger murderous agendas. Their total lack of respect for human life is scarier than anything else. They will push their own children in the line of fire, and then call Israel the aggressors. Dayeinu.

I hate German. It may be my upbringing – my mother was born there and she won’t even say that word! She says she was born in Europe. She has a stateless passport. –

I think you can’t beat the warmth of Yiddish.

How can someone say they hate German and Love Yiddish????

They are almost the same language and sound almost the same to the untrained ear (Sort of like Americans cant tell the difference between Australian and England English and Europeans cant tell the difference between US English and Canadian English)

English is not derived from latin, Latin derived languages are called Romance Languages Like French, Italian, Spanish and Portugese.

English is probably derived from Old Norse, but around the year 1300 or so the language changed drastically, so if you see Beowolf, it is meaningless to a modern english speaker and even Canterberry Tales is very hard for a modern english speaker to comprhend.

However German and Yiddish are VERY similiar, like Spanish and Italian or Spanish and Portugese (These languages are very similar and speakers of each can mostly understand each other) A german speaker would not understand yiddish 100R%, but it would be significant